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THINGS NOT TO SAY TO TRANS PEOPLE

“Wait… aren’t you just gay?”

Gender identity is not the same as sexual orientation. For simplicity’s sake:

Gender identity = who you are,

Sexual orientation = to whom you are attracted.

Most often, when someone transitions, sexuality does not shift*. However, the label for the sexuality might change so that it reflects the person’s true gender identity. For example, I’ve always dated women. Before I transitioned, I called myself gay because I hadn’t realized I was transgender. Since coming out as a trans man, I call myself straight because I am not a woman attracted to women; I am a man attracted to women, and the word we use for that is straight.

*Sometimes sexuality does shift through transition, and often this is because people feel more comfortable expressing themselves and their true sexuality through finding authenticity in transition.

THINGS NOT TO SAY TO TRANS PEOPLE

“The Bible says transgender people are an abomination.”

No, it does not. There is, quite literally, NO mention of transgender people in the Bible!
The bible does, however, say to love your neighbor as yourself over 100 times in 100 different verses (Romans 13:8-10, Leviticus 19:18, Mark 12:31, and many more.)
The bible also talks about compassion in 14+ versus, saying that we should “clothe [ourselves] with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience,” (Psalm 112:3-5). Nowhere does it say you should hate or discriminate against transgender people. If you are using the Bible to justify your hatred of trans people you are not only inaccurate but also disrespectful.

“God doesn’t love you.” or “You’re going to hell.”

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